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Obscene videos in social media spew venom on victims

Cuttack: Gone are the days of waiting to watch news on Television or zip through the news in the morning newspaper but now world of communication has taken giant strides as anyone wants to know what's going on in the world, all they need to do is to jump on social media or any websites they choose for.

Some sections of youths are in the grip of illusion of social media as instead of taking advantage of it they misuse it by destroying privacy of the other individuals and making them disrepute in their social status in numerous social platforms. There are people who spend their time in different social media for learning things or enjoyment but on the other side some people have engaged in making viral of obscene videos in different social network sides as this trend has been an annoyance for civilized society.

Though social network sites offer a great deal for updating all what is happening around the world but some wayward youths have engaged and they are spoiling their precious time by making viral obscene videos of girls in different social platforms resulting untimely deaths of some girls.

Some anti-socials are making their relentless effort to blackmail girls through secret videos after making physical intimacy with them and uploading the same in the different social platforms. If bitterness grows among the couple then the male counterpart takes an aggressive turn to upload the video in different social platforms and such viral videos brings suicidal deaths of these hapless girls.

Anti-socials tarnish their image in the society and forcing these girls think that they have no option to live with the society with such tarnished image but to end their life impulsively.

Since such activities being regarded as social stigma victims have no courage to face the society rather they devour their life without giving a second that. Such dangerous trends must be curbed with awakening these victims with increasing awareness among them. Though police is trying to prevent obscene videos being viral but many times it’s evident that family of victims don’t come forward to complain against accused but such trends must be discouraged and the concerned families must put their complain before local police station despite threat emanating from the accused.

There are legal provisions under Indian Penal Code (IPC), Section 354 (c) to counter such things in the court of law as this section clearly outlines that any man who watches, or captures the image of a woman engaging in a private act in circumstances where she would usually have the expectation of not being observed either by the perpetrator or by any other person at the behest of the perpetrator or disseminates such image shall be punished on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than one year, but which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine, and be punished on a second or subsequent conviction, with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than three years, but which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Besides this under IT (Amendment) Act of 2008 (section 67 and section 67 a) whoever publishes or transmits in the electronic form any material which contains sexually explicit act or conduct shall be punished on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to ten lakh rupees.

Uploading obscene videos have no stumbling blocks in any social platforms resulting these girls become easy prey to such social predators.

In this backdrop victims do not complain about such things in their family and consequently activities of such malicious persons unfolds with the every passing day. Though a research centre has been embellished at Bhubaneswar to prevent cyber crimes and it will certainly help victims and in this regard police must awaken these victims with increasing in their awareness level to stand up to this predicament.

With so much sharing going on, issues over privacy will always be a big concern. Whether it's a question of social sites owning your content after it's posted, becoming a target after sharing your geographical location online, or even getting in trouble at work after tweeting something inappropriate sharing too much with the public can open up all sorts of problems that sometimes can't ever be undone.

By Shrikant Panda

04/12/2017

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